[RNLD] Sorry wrong header to previous email: Announcement: Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub Tuesday 19th April 2016

[Ruth Singer]

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*Announcement: Melbourne Linguistics in the Pub Tuesday 19th April 2016*



*Professor Ulrike Mosel *(Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) will be
leading the discussion



*Writing a corpus-based grammar of a previously undescribed language*

Grammar writers nowadays are in many ways in a better situation than their
colleagues some two decades or so ago: for one thing, they can draw on rich
repositories of recorded spoken and written texts in digital format; for
another thing, they have modern field linguistic and corpus linguistic
tools at their disposal to explore these unprecedentedly rich text data in
systematic and reproducible ways. Drawing on experience from the ongoing
description of the previously undescribed language Teop (Mosel 2014), we
will be discussing corpus linguistic and documentary aspects of modern
grammar writing. We will focus here particularly on how corpus linguistic
methods allow for capturing language variation in descriptive grammars, and
how corpora consisting of diverse text varieties are better equipped to
capture more exhaustively the possible grammatical structures of a language.


*Reading*:

Mosel, Ulrike. 2014. Corpus linguistic and documentary approaches in
writing a grammar of a previously undescribed language. In *The art and
practice of grammar writing*. Language Documentation and Conservation
Special Publication No. 8 edited by Toshihide Nakayama and Karen Rice,
135-157. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/4589/1/9_Mosel.pdf


Date:      Tuesday 19th April

Time:       6:00 - 8:00 pm
Venue:     Function room (upstairs)

*University hotel*

*Address: *272 Lygon St, Carlton VIC 3053

*Phone:   *(03) 9347 7299

                http://www.unihotel.com.au/ (menu available online)


LIP is an occasional gathering of language activists and linguists in
Melbourne and is coordinated by the MLIP committee: Ruth Singer, Stefan
Schnell (Melbourne Uni) and Harriet Sheppard, Jonathan Schlossberg, Alan
Ray, Giordana Santosuosso, Jonathon Lum (Monash Uni)



Contact Ruth Singer (University of Melbourne) with any questions:
*rsinger at unimelb.edu.au
<rsinger at unimelb.edu.au>*
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